Looking out the front window at Mount Gambier in all its 190m (620ft) stature made reading this article on Today I Found out about the difference between hills and mountains all the more intriguing. Apparently there are objective matters of height, and more subjective matters of prominence in play. Not content with one contentious subject …

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We had a situation the other day where we were faced with drinking wine but didn’t have wine glasses available. So the glasses were removed from the dishwasher and cleaned by hand. It just didn’t seem right otherwise. This article on Today I Found Out deals with the very question: Why Is Wine Almost Always …

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Turns out the survival rate for falling out of a plane without a parachute may be slightly higher than that of being a Presbyterian minister in South Australia. (That’s a joke. It may be true, but it’s still a joke.) This post on Today I Found Out is about how best to survive a parachuteless …

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This video from Today I Found Out is about the differences between bees, wasps, and hornets. So, hornets are a type of wasp, and wasps can be either social or solitary. And after their working life wasps spend their time waiting to die getting drunk. Or something like that. Watch the video.